On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:39, Sebastian Beßler <sebast...@darkmetatron.de> wrote: > Am 21.10.2011 18:07, schrieb Michael Mol: > >> A WPA supplicant is a process which negotiates keychanges for WPA. >> wpa_supplicant is not the only WPA supplicant package available; >> there's also NetworkManager and wicd. > > NetworkManager and wicd uses wpa_supplicant, they don't replace it. >
NetworkManager and wicd are pretty much wpa_gui with a post-connection restart of dhcpcd (dhcpcd -k $iface; dhcpcd $iface) or whatever your dhcp client is. And, to some degree, netplug.
